I was recently outside of the aquariam looking at the harbor seals when one came right up to the glass and stared at me. Cute. Then I saw all these bubbles and realized he was, uh... digesting his lunch. The "cat tails" on Giovanna's cake look just like seal poo - color and all. CC

I can see how they tried in Giovanna's cake to be artistic in their color choices. Unfortunately, the yellow airbrushed effect just adds to the cat poo look of the orange "roses." And the seal poo of the leaves. Blech.

Cake #2, The roses were made well. And no one should fight over 'who gets the flower' piece. And they match the plates/napkins nicely. The leaves look gross though (but I think green leaves might have looked awkward).

Cake #3, Yucky blobby chocolate icing. Those look more like carnations than roses. Since when to flower stems look like balloon strings? O.o

These cakes remind me of a birthday cake I made about 50 years ago for my little brother's birthday (long before themed cakes were the norm). His birthday is July 4, we lived in un-air conditioned Iowa so the humidity equaled the temperature. Butter cream roses are not up to the task. But at least they were a pretty rose-like color.

#5 Ah, poor 'Chwistino'. Not really *digging* the overhand grip used to place it on the countertop, either (see upper right hand corner). If we don't know how to make flowers, couldn't we just have used some flotsam?

#6 "C.F. Kane, here -- I want you to make me a cake. It must have one very important element on it, but I can't yet tell you what it is." It's ok, Charlie; we can't tell what it is, either.

Three things:A. There must be some sort of nuclear reaction to create that shade of pink. Ick.B. Not only did the cat mistake Giovanna's cake for the litter box, but someone decided to dig up great aunt hilda's lace collar to display the cake on. Gak.C. if those are actually eggplants instead of roses, the cake might actually work. Hmmm...wv: regdi - too easy, I'm regdi to hurl after this post

Not all the roses on Cake #2 (seizure cake)are lovely--does anyone else see the dead mice lined up along the front row? They were, of course, placed there by the cat who made the lovely contribution to Cake #4.

Noooo my favorite flower and now it looks like poo. Lol they must pay for this somehow. Like being forced to eat that first lovely poo rose cake. Ugh why do they do this? Do they not care about the work or what??

Actually I'm finding, as a cake decorator, that most of the new hires from pastry schools do NOT know how to do roses, nor do they know how to write on a cake. I don't know what pastry schools are teaching them, but whatever it is, it's not going to be useful to them in their first jobs. Which is why I'm glad I taught myself how to decorate cakes using videos on YouTube - everything else, I can be trained to do on the job at no cost to me.

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